This adds another twist on hundreds of years of the
ancient art of falconry - the sport of kings.
It would seem the bad guys have learned to modify remotely-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to spy on the good guys, intrude upon restricted airspace and deliver ordnance upon the good guys. What to do? Borrow a page or two from the history books.
Named after characters in the 'Three Musketeers' the French military has been raising four golden eagles - d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis – and is training them to take out UAVs. Rather than spending a bazillion dollars on a high-tech mechanism to zap the bad-guy drones here’s a creative reuse of old-school technology to hunt-down an aerial intruder. I’m not making it up – you can learn more about this story here.
It would seem the bad guys have learned to modify remotely-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to spy on the good guys, intrude upon restricted airspace and deliver ordnance upon the good guys. What to do? Borrow a page or two from the history books.
Named after characters in the 'Three Musketeers' the French military has been raising four golden eagles - d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis – and is training them to take out UAVs. Rather than spending a bazillion dollars on a high-tech mechanism to zap the bad-guy drones here’s a creative reuse of old-school technology to hunt-down an aerial intruder. I’m not making it up – you can learn more about this story here.
What next? A modern-day trebuchet?
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